https://swarmfile.com/changelog What shipped in Swarmfile: capability releases and notable fixes. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-30-2026-clone-a-project-with-git swarmfile-changelog-sep-30-2026-clone-a-project-with-git Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Once an owner turns on git access for a project, git clone swarmfile://your-org/your-project gives you a real git repository of it: every branch and tag as git history, large files as git-LFS pointers that Swarmfile serves, and git fetch to bring in new commits. It's read-only (pushing back through git isn't supported; the drive is still where work happens), and the desktop installers include the small git helper it needs. Turning git access on is a one-way switch, because the rules that turn the project into git commits are frozen so commit ids never change under an existing clone. End-to-end-encrypted projects can't be cloned yet. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-30-2026-require-mfa-or-a-verified-email-across-your-organization swarmfile-changelog-sep-30-2026-require-mfa-or-a-verified-email-across-your-organization Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Owners on Starter and above can now require every member to sign in with an authenticator app, to have a verified email, or both, starting right away or after a grace window of up to 30 days. Members are nudged to enroll in the web dashboard, the desktop app and the command line before enforcement starts, and owners can see who has and hasn't enrolled. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-30-2026-see-where-the-bytes-you-read-came-from swarmfile-changelog-sep-30-2026-see-where-the-bytes-you-read-came-from Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The desktop app's new Data sources panel shows, for each file you've read and in total, how much came from this computer, from a colleague's computer, and from the cloud, with first-read times. Reset the counters to measure one session at a time; the same figures are available from the command line for scripts and reports. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-30-2026-mac-users-update-to-0-2-41-now swarmfile-changelog-sep-30-2026-mac-users-update-to-0-2-41-now Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two serious bugs affected the Mac drive, and both are fixed in 0.2.41. First, releases up to 0.2.39 mounted the drive with a setting that let an app changing a file's extended attributes (Finder tags, comments and similar) trigger a crash in macOS's own network-filesystem client, restarting the Mac; the same setting made saves from TextEdit and some other apps fail. The drive no longer uses it: extended attributes now stay on the Mac that set them and aren't shared with teammates. Second, releases 0.2.36 to 0.2.39 could freeze the whole drive the moment a save was refused, for example a file locked by someone else or a project that had been archived, until the app was force-quit or the Mac restarted. A refused save now comes back as an ordinary error. There was no Mac build of 0.2.40, so update straight to 0.2.41 or later. Windows and Linux were not affected. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-29-2026-set-a-ceiling-on-what-overage-can-cost swarmfile-changelog-sep-29-2026-set-a-ceiling-on-what-overage-can-cost Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Starter and Pro organizations now have a monthly spend cap on metered overage: storage above your allowance and extra external collaborators. It starts at your plan's seat charge, and an owner or admin can raise or lower it, permanently or for a set period. When overage reaches the cap, uploads that would add billable storage pause while reading, streaming and everything else keep working; the desktop app holds paused saves and sends them once the cap is raised or space is freed. A project API key can carry its own, lower budget as well. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-protected-branches-now-refuse-direct-changes-not-just-merges swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-protected-branches-now-refuse-direct-changes-not-just-merges Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A protected branch used to block only direct merges - anyone could still edit files on it directly from a mount. Protection is now a write gate: saving, editing, renaming, moving, creating or deleting a file on a protected branch, staging and committing, rolling back, and resolving (or auto-resolving) a conflict all come back as "branch is protected - changes must land through an approved merge request". The way through is a branch and an approved merge request, as before; the merge itself is unchanged and still lands. Nobody gets a bypass, not even an org admin. Two practical notes: update every machine's mount/Desktop app before you protect a branch it works on - an older app reads the new refusal on a commit as a missing changeset and can drop its local commit session, while the updated app holds the work and tells you to move it to a branch - and reflecting LFS content (a git lfs push followed by reflect) onto a protected target is refused, so reflect onto a branch and merge it (the object upload itself still succeeds). Unprotected branches are untouched. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-handing-back-a-whole-project-you-reserved-for-offline-work swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-handing-back-a-whole-project-you-reserved-for-offline-work Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT When you reserve a whole folder or project for offline work (Pack & Go) and later choose Return from offline, other people could stay locked out of those files until the reservation expired - up to a month, in the worst case, with nothing in the app saying why. That's fixed: returning now releases the folder reservation itself, not just the per-file records, and it gives any saves still uploading a few seconds to land first, then tells you how many are still going. While you're online your reservations are renewed automatically (including across restarts, and for every mount you have open), so a trip away no longer silently outlives its lease; the Locks panel now lists folder/project reservations with who holds them and when they expire, including other machines'. Two machines can no longer each reserve the same folder and have one quietly lose its writes - the second one is refused up front with the holder's name. Canceling a reserve also stops the download it started, and switching a mount to another branch releases the reservation for the branch you left so teammates there aren't stuck. If you run an older desktop app, Return from offline there won't release a folder reservation; update the app to get the fix (the service also clears lapsed reservations on its own). https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-file-conflicts-are-easier-to-see-and-safer-to-resolve swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-file-conflicts-are-easier-to-see-and-safer-to-resolve Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A pass over what happens when two people - or two machines - change the same file. A file with an unresolved conflict now wears a Conflict badge in the Files list, so you can spot it before opening it instead of only finding out once it is selected. Resolving a merge conflict by hand now writes the merged version back to the branch it came from as well, so the next merge doesn't immediately flag the same file again - and the hub checks you have write access on both branches before it does. The conflict text you hand-edit stays available for as long as the conflict is open (it could previously be cleaned up in the background), and a file added on a branch whose name someone created on the other side in the meantime is refused cleanly instead of applying part of a merge and stopping. Automatic merging is unchanged: it clears only what it can merge cleanly and leaves the rest to you. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-a-save-made-just-after-swarmfile-restarted-could-fail-to-reach-your-team swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-a-save-made-just-after-swarmfile-restarted-could-fail-to-reach-your-team Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After Swarmfile restarted (an update, a reboot, a crash), the first save of a file you had also saved in the previous day could be recorded locally but never sent, so teammates kept seeing the earlier version until you saved that file again. Nothing was lost on your machine, but it didn't reach anyone else. That's fixed: every save now gets an identity that can't collide with one from before the restart, and if it ever did, the save is retried instead of dropped. If you edited files right after an update recently, saving them once more makes sure your team has the latest version. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-several-projects-on-a-mac-at-the-same-time swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-several-projects-on-a-mac-at-the-same-time Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT On macOS the desktop app can now keep more than one project mounted at once, the way it already could on Windows and Linux: one mount per project or branch, each under its own path in /Volumes. Files stay live on every mount: reading or saving in one no longer freezes the others. Getting there meant fixing the filesystem library Swarmfile bundles for macOS, which until now could only serve a single mount per running app; the fix has been sent upstream and ships in this release. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-faster-cold-reads-from-the-cloud swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-faster-cold-reads-from-the-cloud Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Opening part of a file this machine has never read got a lot quicker. On our staging service, with an 8 GB file and every byte coming from the cloud, the first read dropped from about 2.2 seconds to under a second, and a seek to a new spot from about 1.8 seconds to about 0.7. Most of the gain came from one fix: when a teammate's machine had just gone offline, every read used to wait a full second on it before asking the cloud. Now a peer that stops answering is skipped after a failure or two, the wait before asking the cloud adapts to how fast your peers normally answer, and the pieces a single read needs are fetched at the same time instead of one after another. Reading straight through a file (playing a video, copying it) now also fetches ahead of you in the background, without pulling more than it needs when you jump around. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-machines-in-the-same-office-now-find-each-other-directly swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-machines-in-the-same-office-now-find-each-other-directly Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Machines on the same network are supposed to discover each other automatically and share file data over the local network. That discovery wasn't actually announcing anything, so machines only found each other through the cloud service, and local transfers were treated like internet ones. It now works: in our tests, every byte a machine fetched from a teammate on the same network came over the local network. Discovery now only uses real local network adapters, not VPNs, virtual machines or container bridges. The Windows installer adds a firewall rule that lets Swarmfile reach other machines on the local network (on home and work networks only, not public ones), and a teammate's machine going offline no longer slows your reads while Swarmfile works out it has gone. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-conflicts-on-binary-files-pick-a-side-no-false-promises swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-conflicts-on-binary-files-pick-a-side-no-false-promises Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT When a binary file (a texture, a model, a video) conflicts, the resolve dialog no longer offers an automatic merge or hand-editing, because neither can work on a binary format; it asks you which version to keep, or to keep both. Text files still get both options. Same change in the web dashboard and the desktop app. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-preview-images-are-now-encrypted-at-rest swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-preview-images-are-now-encrypted-at-rest Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT On managed projects, the thumbnails, video poster frames and point-cloud previews the service generates are now stored encrypted with the project's own key, like the files themselves, instead of as plain images. Existing previews keep working and are replaced as files change. Video proxies and short-lived download copies are still stored unencrypted for now; the Security page lists exactly what is and isn't. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-the-storage-format-is-documented swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-the-storage-format-is-documented Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Swarmfile stores your files is now written down in full: how files are chunked, how blocks are named, the manifest formats, how each tier is encrypted and who holds which key, and a step-by-step guide to rebuilding a file from its stored blocks by hand. It's in the docs under Reference. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-24-2026-an-api-key-allowance-on-every-plan-and-packs-when-you-need-more swarmfile-changelog-sep-24-2026-an-api-key-allowance-on-every-plan-and-packs-when-you-need-more Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Each plan now includes a set number of project API keys for headless machines: 1 on Free, 2 per seat on Starter (at least 5), and 5 per seat on Pro (at least 10). Need more? Add them in packs of 10 for $20 a month from billing. Personal access tokens don't count against the allowance. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-23-2026-two-step-sign-in-with-an-authenticator-app swarmfile-changelog-sep-23-2026-two-step-sign-in-with-an-authenticator-app Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Protect your account with an authenticator app under Settings, Account, Security, with recovery codes in case you lose your phone. Once it's on, signing in also asks for a code from the app. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-open-a-file-while-it-is-still-uploading swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-open-a-file-while-it-is-still-uploading Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A file that is still uploading is now openable through the drive right away. It shows the size it is going to be, and reads stream the bytes as they arrive, served straight from the writer's machine over your office LAN before they ever reach the cloud. This only ever applies to a file that has no finished version yet, so a file you are already reading never changes under you. A read into a part that has not landed yet waits briefly and then reports a retryable 'try again' rather than an I/O error, so editing apps don't mistake a slow upload for a damaged file. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-20-2026-check-your-project-s-history-for-yourself swarmfile-changelog-sep-20-2026-check-your-project-s-history-for-yourself Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every confirmed commit is now hash-chained to the history before it, and the service regularly signs a checkpoint of each branch. A standalone verifier, installed with the desktop app, walks a branch from its newest commit back to the start, recomputes every hash and checks every signature, so an audit machine or a CI job can confirm the history hasn't been altered. Give it the signing key you trust and the check no longer depends on taking our word for it. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-20-2026-public-projects-releases-and-explore swarmfile-changelog-sep-20-2026-public-projects-releases-and-explore Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Publish a tag of a public project as a release anyone can browse and stream, with a downloadable archive for signed-in users, a commit-pinned provenance badge, generated release notes and download counts, and the README as its landing page. Public projects with a release are listed, and searchable, on Explore; organizations get a public profile with followers, release emails and an RSS feed; and anyone can copy a release into a project of their own with Get this project. Publishing is from the desktop app or the command line. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-15-2026-a-workspace-for-each-coding-agent-one-shared-dependency-cache swarmfile-changelog-sep-15-2026-a-workspace-for-each-coding-agent-one-shared-dependency-cache Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run several coding agents against one project on the same machine, each in its own labeled mount, and point them at one shared dependency cache so the same packages aren't downloaded and stored once per agent. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-large-folders-load-fast-in-the-files-view swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-large-folders-load-fast-in-the-files-view Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Browsing a folder with tens or hundreds of thousands of files (a point-cloud tile set, a scan-output dump) no longer means waiting on one giant response or a sluggish, ever-growing list. The web dashboard's Files view and the desktop app's file picker now load a folder's contents in pages and only render what's actually on screen, so scrolling and sorting stay fast regardless of folder size. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-11-2026-a-free-plan-no-card-needed swarmfile-changelog-sep-11-2026-a-free-plan-no-card-needed Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Start on Swarmfile without a card. The Free plan is for one person publishing public projects: storage that grows with the age of your account up to 1 GiB, free downloads, and one API key. Free projects are public and stored without encryption at rest; private and encrypted projects start on Starter, and you can upgrade the same organization whenever you're ready. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-see-exactly-what-changed-in-a-merge-request swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-see-exactly-what-changed-in-a-merge-request Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Merge requests now show more than a list of changed files. Click one open to see the actual diff, with syntax highlighting and the specific words that changed on each line. A file that conflicts with the target branch shows a 3-way comparison instead: your changes and the target's changes, each against the version both branches started from, so you can see exactly what's colliding before you resolve it. Available on the web dashboard and the desktop app. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-9-2026-the-right-reviewers-requested-automatically swarmfile-changelog-sep-9-2026-the-right-reviewers-requested-automatically Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A branch protection rule can now name a set of automatic reviewers, in the spirit of a CODEOWNERS file: every merge request opened against a matching branch asks for their review straight away, with nobody having to remember to add them. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-a-real-grace-period-if-a-payment-fails swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-a-real-grace-period-if-a-payment-fails Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT If your subscription lapses, your projects don't disappear the moment a card is declined. You now get a 28-day grace period with reminder emails along the way to fix it, instead of a hard cutoff. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-swarmfile-is-now-a-git-lfs-server swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-swarmfile-is-now-a-git-lfs-server Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Point git-LFS at Swarmfile and your large binary assets get real storage, dedup, and quota instead of bloating your git host, while your source stays in the git host you already use. Stock git-LFS pushes objects up to ~100 MB; a small transfer agent takes pushes up to 256 GiB per object, chunked and resumable; file locking works for files that live only in git; and you're never locked in: pulling everything back with stock git-LFS and no Swarmfile software lets you repoint at any other host and leave. Objects you push can also be projected onto the mounted drive as first-class files. One caveat on encryption: objects sent in blocks through the transfer agent are encrypted at rest like the rest of a private project, but objects uploaded directly by the stock git-LFS client, and uploads of 64 MiB or more through the desktop app's built-in agent, are stored without that encryption, and git-LFS isn't available on end-to-end-encrypted projects. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-keep-your-data-in-the-eu-or-the-us swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-keep-your-data-in-the-eu-or-the-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pin your organization's metadata and storage to a region (the EU or the US) when you sign up, and it stays there, enforced at the infrastructure level rather than by policy. It's included at no extra cost on every paid plan. Storage in a FedRAMP region is on the Enterprise roadmap. Swarmfile itself is not FedRAMP-authorized, so talk to us before you plan around it. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-send-events-anywhere-with-webhooks swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-send-events-anywhere-with-webhooks Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Swarmfile can now post to your own endpoint when files change, branches move, merges land, or people and permissions change, so Slack, Zapier, a SIEM, or your own service can react without polling. Every message is signed so you can verify it really came from us, outbound calls are guarded against pointing at internal addresses, and an endpoint that keeps failing is switched off automatically. You can also set up a personal channel just for the events you care about. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-protect-a-branch-behind-review swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-protect-a-branch-behind-review Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mark a branch as protected (by name, or by a pattern like release/*) and changes into it need an approved merge request first. Set how many approvals a merge needs, and direct merges and writes are refused until the reviews are in. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-keep-junk-off-the-drive-automatically swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-keep-junk-off-the-drive-automatically Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A .gitignore or .swarmfileignore file is now honored, so node_modules, caches, and build output are kept off the drive and out of your file listings instead of syncing to everyone. Nested rules and negation work the way you'd expect. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-bring-your-own-storage swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-bring-your-own-storage Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Enterprise organizations can point their primary block storage at their own S3-compatible bucket, so the underlying bytes live in infrastructure you own and control. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-mirror-a-branch-to-your-own-bucket swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-mirror-a-branch-to-your-own-bucket Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mirror any branch to your own S3-compatible bucket (AWS, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, MinIO, or any other S3-compatible provider) as real files at real paths, not opaque blocks. Handy for a hand-off, a backup, or feeding a pipeline that expects plain files. Available on Pro and Enterprise. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-merge-requests-review-before-it-lands swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-merge-requests-review-before-it-lands Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Branching and merging back could already happen with nothing standing in the way. Now you can open a merge request instead (a named proposal with its own discussion thread), and it stays blocked until a teammate approves it. Anyone can request changes instead, and self-approval is refused, so review means an actual second person. Available from the dashboard, the desktop app, and the CLI, including a status check that scripts and CI can gate on. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-point-an-unattended-machine-at-a-branch-and-let-it-run swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-point-an-unattended-machine-at-a-branch-and-let-it-run Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A render node or CI box can now watch a branch and run a job automatically the moment a matching commit or tag lands, with no person watching it happen. The rules live in a small file on the branch itself, so what runs travels with the code. Every run is recorded, with a history you can pull up per branch to see what ran and when. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-watch-a-file-while-it-s-still-uploading swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-watch-a-file-while-it-s-still-uploading Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Asking for one part of a file in progress was already possible; watching one wasn't, because a viewer moves: it plays forward, and it seeks. Now it can. Point a follow job at a file someone is still uploading and it keeps a buffer ahead of wherever you are, re-targeting the moment you scrub somewhere else, and the uploading machine stops working on the stretch you scrubbed away from rather than finishing it first. How far ahead it buffers is measured from how fast you're actually watching, so a proxy and a full-resolution master each get the right amount. If the uploading machine is on the same network as you, it hands you the bytes straight off its own disk before they've even reached the cloud. Worth being straight about the limit: this decides which bytes reach you first, not how fast your connection is. A 4 TB master on a modest office uplink is still hours away whatever the order. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-ask-for-part-of-a-file-that-s-still-uploading swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-ask-for-part-of-a-file-that-s-still-uploading Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A very large file on a slow connection can take hours to upload, and until now nobody else could open the new version until all of it had arrived. Now the file shows an "Uploading" badge while it's on its way (the version everyone can already read stays available and unchanged), and if you need part of the new one sooner, you can ask for it. The uploading machine sends that part first, so you get it in about the time it takes to send that part rather than waiting out the whole file. Handy when the reel, sheet or scan you need is at the end of something enormous. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-upload-speed-limits-now-apply-at-every-value swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-upload-speed-limits-now-apply-at-every-value Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT An upload speed limit set below about 8 Mbps was previously ignored, so uploads ran at full speed. Limits now apply at every value, including low ones, and uploads slow to the rate you configured. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-14-2026-sign-in-to-the-desktop-app-through-your-browser swarmfile-changelog-aug-14-2026-sign-in-to-the-desktop-app-through-your-browser Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Signing in to the desktop app now happens in the browser you already use: choose Sign in, finish there, and you're handed straight back to the app, with no codes to copy and no password typed into the app itself. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-api-keys-for-machines-that-don-t-have-a-person-behind-them swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-api-keys-for-machines-that-don-t-have-a-person-behind-them Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A render farm or CI runner no longer has to sign in as someone's actual account to talk to Swarmfile. Mint a key scoped to exactly one project, hand it to the machine, and revoke it independently whenever the job is done, without touching anyone's login. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#aug-2026-branch-from-an-exact-past-commit-or-a-named-tag swarmfile-changelog-aug-2026-branch-from-an-exact-past-commit-or-a-named-tag Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Forking a branch can now start from any past commit, not just the live tip, in one step instead of forking then rolling it back. Tag a commit with a memorable name to branch from later without hunting for a commit number, from the dashboard, the desktop app, or the CLI. Handy for pinning an unattended machine (a render node, a CI runner) to an exact historical state with no browser or Desktop App needed. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#sep-2026-windows-saving-a-file-in-place-is-reliable swarmfile-changelog-sep-2026-windows-saving-a-file-in-place-is-reliable Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Saving over an existing file on Windows and reopening it now returns exactly what you saved, every time. The overwrite path could previously leave the reopened file unreadable; that path is fixed. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jul-2026-see-exactly-what-you-re-paying-for swarmfile-changelog-jul-2026-see-exactly-what-you-re-paying-for Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new usage panel shows what you're using against your plan, what each part costs, and an estimated total for the period, visible to anyone on the team, not just the account owner. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jul-2026-switch-plans-and-manage-billing-without-emailing-anyone swarmfile-changelog-jul-2026-switch-plans-and-manage-billing-without-emailing-anyone Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Move between Starter and Pro right from the dashboard. Your existing subscription and trial carry over, no re-signing up. Cancel, update a card, or pull an invoice any time through a self-serve billing portal. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jul-2026-starting-a-trial-is-now-one-step swarmfile-changelog-jul-2026-starting-a-trial-is-now-one-step Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sign up and you're straight into checkout, with no separate "create your organization" step in between. Your organization is set up automatically behind the scenes. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jul-2026-a-way-to-reach-us-right-on-the-site swarmfile-changelog-jul-2026-a-way-to-reach-us-right-on-the-site Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A simple contact form for questions, demos, or anything else, so no more hunting for an email address. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jul-2026-fix-it-yourself swarmfile-changelog-jul-2026-fix-it-yourself Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT If something ever goes wrong with your install, a one-click repair option gets you back to a clean, working state, with no waiting on support. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jul-2026-a-simpler-install-on-mac swarmfile-changelog-jul-2026-a-simpler-install-on-mac Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Installing on macOS no longer asks you to lower your Mac's security settings or reboot into recovery mode. Same drive, a much simpler first run. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-review-requests-right-where-the-work-lives swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-review-requests-right-where-the-work-lives Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture and engineering teams can now raise, track, and resolve requests for information and submittals directly on the drive, with no separate tool required. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-branch-a-project-merge-it-back swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-branch-a-project-merge-it-back Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fork a project to try a variant without touching what everyone else is working on. Branching costs almost nothing and each branch works independently. When you're ready, merge the changed files back into main, with conflicts flagged so nothing gets silently overwritten. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-commit-a-batch-revert-it-as-one-move swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-commit-a-batch-revert-it-as-one-move Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Group a set of changed files into one named, atomic commit. See the full history, and revert (or restore) an entire commit, folder, or project to a past point in time, not file by file. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-a-new-look-and-dedicated-pages-for-your-team swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-a-new-look-and-dedicated-pages-for-your-team Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Redesigned the whole site with a warmer, calmer look. New dedicated pages for media, geospatial, and AEC teams, a head-to-head comparison with LucidLink, and restructured pricing that's easier to compare at a glance. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-tuned-for-resolve-premiere-and-avid swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-tuned-for-resolve-premiere-and-avid Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Performance tuned specifically for the editing and color tools studios actually use. Editors in the same office now share bandwidth automatically instead of each pulling from the cloud, and self-hosted seed nodes got a hardened setup guide. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-your-files-survive-losing-a-machine swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-your-files-survive-losing-a-machine Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Files are erasure-coded across shards by default, so a slow or offline peer never blocks a read. On a multi-machine office you can now deliberately spread those shards across your own workstations instead of leaving placement to chance (inspectable per file from the CLI), so losing any one machine in the office doesn't cost you data. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#jun-2026-work-offline-reconnect-without-losing-anything swarmfile-changelog-jun-2026-work-offline-reconnect-without-losing-anything Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Files you've recently touched stay available even without a connection, and any edits you make offline sync automatically once you're back online. If someone else changed the same file while you were away, you get a clear choice (keep yours, keep theirs, or keep both) instead of a silent overwrite. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#may-2026-simpler-fairer-pricing swarmfile-changelog-may-2026-simpler-fairer-pricing Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pro is now priced per seat, with metered overage only above your included storage. No surprise bills, no guessing what a plan actually costs as your team grows or shrinks. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#may-2026-a-mode-for-locked-down-networks swarmfile-changelog-may-2026-a-mode-for-locked-down-networks Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT For IT teams that block direct machine-to-machine traffic outright, Swarmfile can now run in a cloud-only mode, with everything routed through the same secure cloud path, no peer-to-peer connections at all. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#may-2026-point-swarmfile-at-your-existing-nas swarmfile-changelog-may-2026-point-swarmfile-at-your-existing-nas Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run a self-hosted seed node against hardware you already own, and it joins the swarm like any other peer: a warm local tier backed by the cloud, not a wholesale migration off your NAS. Available on Pro and above. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#may-2026-review-on-the-drive swarmfile-changelog-may-2026-review-on-the-drive Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Comment on any file and @-mention a teammate (or a guest reviewer) right where the work lives. They're notified by email or in the app; no round-trip to a separate review tool. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#may-2026-check-a-project-out-before-you-go-somewhere-offline swarmfile-changelog-may-2026-check-a-project-out-before-you-go-somewhere-offline Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT "Pack & Go" locks a file, or a set of files, to you for as long as you need. Travel to set, take a laptop somewhere without reliable internet, and know nobody else can land a conflicting change while you're away. Longer-lived than an ordinary edit lock, and released the moment you're back and done. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#apr-2026-see-who-s-editing-and-ask-for-it-back swarmfile-changelog-apr-2026-see-who-s-editing-and-ask-for-it-back Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Real-time presence now shows exactly who has a file open, so you never overwrite someone mid-edit. And if a file you need is locked, you can request it in a click; the holder gets a prompt and the lock is released the moment they're done. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#apr-2026-get-notified-the-moment-a-specific-file-changes swarmfile-changelog-apr-2026-get-notified-the-moment-a-specific-file-changes Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Watch a single file or an entire folder and get notified the moment something inside it changes, on top of the project-wide change bell, for the handful of things you actually need to know about the second they move. Set it from the web, the desktop app, or the CLI. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#apr-2026-notifications-in-your-inbox-not-just-the-app swarmfile-changelog-apr-2026-notifications-in-your-inbox-not-just-the-app Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Failed uploads, quarantined files, new comments, and mentions can now reach you by email too, with quiet hours and per-notification controls so you only hear about what matters. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#mar-2026-bring-your-own-identity-provider swarmfile-changelog-mar-2026-bring-your-own-identity-provider Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Connect your organization's own identity provider (OIDC, including Entra ID and Okta; SAML on Enterprise through an adapter) so sign-in and offboarding follow the rules your IT team already has. SCIM 2.0 keeps membership in sync automatically, and an on-prem LDAP sync agent covers Active Directory without exposing it to the internet. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#mar-2026-one-feed-for-everything-that-happened swarmfile-changelog-mar-2026-one-feed-for-everything-that-happened Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Team admins get a single activity feed (uploads, permission changes, comments, unlock requests, security events), searchable and exportable, instead of piecing it together from separate logs. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#mar-2026-invite-a-client-or-consultant-no-seat-required swarmfile-changelog-mar-2026-invite-a-client-or-consultant-no-seat-required Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Give an external reviewer read or comment access to a single folder (fully audit-trailed and revocable in a click) without buying them a paid seat. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#feb-2026-lock-down-who-can-see-what-folder-by-folder swarmfile-changelog-feb-2026-lock-down-who-can-see-what-folder-by-folder Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Grant read, write, or admin access on any folder or file, allow or deny, inherited down the tree, and enforced the same way no matter which machine or app touches the drive. On Windows, those permissions show up as real entries in Explorer's own Security tab, not just an app-level restriction. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#feb-2026-know-the-moment-something-needs-attention swarmfile-changelog-feb-2026-know-the-moment-something-needs-attention Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Failed uploads, quarantined files, and changes from teammates now surface as native notifications in the Desktop App and a notification bell on the web, instead of failing silently. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#feb-2026-a-built-in-connectivity-checker swarmfile-changelog-feb-2026-a-built-in-connectivity-checker Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run a one-command diagnostic that walks through proxy, firewall, and DNS checks and tells you exactly what's wrong, instead of an IT team spending hours guessing. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2026-revit-worksharing-over-the-drive-with-no-plugin swarmfile-changelog-2026-revit-worksharing-over-the-drive-with-no-plugin Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT On Windows, native file locking is honored and enforced across every machine via the hub, so Revit central-and-local worksharing runs over the Swarmfile drive with no add-in, using the same OS-level approach the established players use. Mac and Linux machines use Swarmfile's own checkout locks, which work everywhere. A finer-grained byte-range lock API is available for custom element-level integrations. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2026-the-drive-comes-to-windows swarmfile-changelog-2026-the-drive-comes-to-windows Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Windows joins macOS and Linux with a full native mount, both ARM64 and x64, Authenticode-signed. Right-click a file or folder on the drive for a Swarmfile menu straight in Explorer, and if a drive letter is already taken, Windows automatically relocates to a free one instead of failing to mount. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-see-a-file-before-you-open-it swarmfile-changelog-2025-see-a-file-before-you-open-it Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Images, PDFs, and Photoshop files now get instant thumbnails and an in-browser preview: no download, no waiting for the full file to open. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-browse-and-share-from-any-browser swarmfile-changelog-2025-browse-and-share-from-any-browser Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT A full file browser in the dashboard, plus password-protected, expiring share links for sending a file or folder to anyone, with no account required on their end. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-move-your-existing-files-in-verified swarmfile-changelog-2025-move-your-existing-files-in-verified Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT One command migrates a local drive, a NAS, or an S3 bucket into Swarmfile, with resume support and a full report confirming every file arrived intact. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-find-anything-instantly swarmfile-changelog-2025-find-anything-instantly Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Search across every file, project, and person in your org from one search box, with a keyboard shortcut and deep links straight to the result. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-nothing-you-delete-is-really-gone swarmfile-changelog-2025-nothing-you-delete-is-really-gone Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deleting a file (from your file manager or the dashboard) sends it to a per-user trash instead of removing it outright, and every file keeps its own history so you can roll back to an earlier version without touching anything else in the project. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-your-files-are-encrypted-before-they-ever-leave-your-machine swarmfile-changelog-2025-your-files-are-encrypted-before-they-ever-leave-your-machine Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Every file in a private project is encrypted at rest by default, on every paid plan. (Public projects, and projects on the no-card Free plan, are stored unencrypted so they can be served openly.) For teams handling pre-release or regulated content, an opt-in end-to-end tier keeps the encryption key off Swarmfile's servers entirely, so even we can't read your content. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-ransomware-can-t-take-your-project-hostage swarmfile-changelog-2025-ransomware-can-t-take-your-project-hostage Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Swarmfile now watches for the pattern something overwriting your files leaves behind and quarantines the affected files inline, before more damage is done. Roll the project back to before it happened, and lock the attacker out. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-the-swarmfile-drive-on-your-desktop swarmfile-changelog-2025-the-swarmfile-drive-on-your-desktop Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Signed installers for macOS, Linux, and Windows bring Swarmfile to your desktop as a normal mounted drive, with a menu-bar app for status and settings. https://swarmfile.com/changelog#2025-self-serve-billing-from-day-one swarmfile-changelog-2025-self-serve-billing-from-day-one Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Start a trial, add a card, and manage your subscription entirely yourself. Usage-based billing tracks storage and transfer automatically in the background.